It’s South East Asia in the late 50s – let’s just say September 1957. I am assigned to MAAG (Military Assistance Advisory Group) Southeast Asia. I was given this assignment while I was in Europe. It seems that my credentials are the only ones that fit the particular assignment.  Oh, l could have turned it [...]

Around the age of eight or so I had gotten a beautiful English type baby carriage for Christmas. The carriage had two really big wheels and a set of four smaller wheels. It really was a beautiful carriage. Now I don’t know who had the bright idea to use the smaller wheels of the carriage [...]

In North Philadelphia where we used to live on Sydenham Street there was a graveyard that had been purchased along with several blocks of other condemned buildings by Temple University. From Sydenham Street there was a group of us kids – all approximately the same age, give or take a few years – that got [...]

My brother, Junior and I spent a lot of time alone together because our mom had to work. This gave way to quite a bit of mischief by us. One day we found a pack of Chesterfield cigarettes in mom’s cedar chest. We were not supposed to bother with moms things but you’ve heard about [...]

I can’t stand weddings.  I don’t like them at all – a whole lot of formality for show.  They are supposed to be a happy occasion, but the last wedding I went to was a fiasco.  It literally changed my whole perception about weddings. It was between two people (a man and a woman) who [...]